235, Peking Duck
Gu Qianxue smiled, "Beijing Roast Duck!" This is simple and easy to make. It's not difficult to imitate a cat or a tiger. The most authentic.
"What is Beijing?" Princess Yong'an was puzzled.
Gu Qianxue said with a smile, "It's a unique way of eating. Now that Qianxue is keeping it a secret, I won't tell the eldest princess any more. You'll know when you make it."
"Okay, okay, do it quickly." Princess Yong'an urged.
When Fuyao and Sangyu heard that they could eat novel delicacies, they were also secretly happy. In their hearts, no matter what Princess Qianxue did, it must be good.
After taking a simple bath and changing clothes, Gu Qianxue changed into a whole set of clothes, and was even forced to dress up.
The skillful maid combed her a so-called falling horse bun, with an empty carved hibiscus pearl and jade hairpin inserted obliquely on top of her head, she was wearing a peach-colored hazy silver gauze gown, and a pair of two-color satin peacocks on her feet. Thread-beaded hibiscus loafers.
People rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. After being skillfully dressed by the maids, Gu Qianxue, who is only considered beautiful on weekdays, turns out to be compellingly beautiful.
But the beautiful appearance can't replace the wisdom and wit in her eyes at all, and this kind of dexterity and self-confidence permeates her body, which is something that many ladies will never have. The most attractive thing about Gu Qianxue is not her appearance. Kind of nimble.
Seeing Gu Qianxue's arrival, the cook of the palace's kitchen hurriedly saluted and greeted the nobles, then quickly put down the work in hand, and dumped the kitchen out. At the same time, he got up all energy and prepared to learn art from Princess Qianxue.
The cooks like Princess Qianxue very much, not only because of the superb cooking skills of the princess, but also because the princess does not hide her secrets. Every time she cooks a delicious meal, she will give them the method carefully.
Not only the cooks, but also the craftsmen who used to work in Yushengju and the maids who served in Nanshan Courtyard and who had learned "yoga" from Princess Qianxue, all love, respect and love Princess Qianxue. There is even a rumor in the palace that Qianxue The princess is the mistress of the future palace.
Naturally, this rumor is not groundless, and the subordinates have their own unique news channels.
When this turmoil spread in the palace, the people in the palace cheered. Of course, the masters didn't know about it, and Gu Qianxue naturally didn't know anything about it.
Peking duck is Gu Qianxue's favorite food, bar none! I have almost traveled all over Beijing to taste various roast ducks, and I often express the emotion of "I have a cliff in my life, but there is no limit to eating roast duck". Not only Gu Qianxue, but also Beijing roast duck has attracted many people who know it. There is a saying called " If you don’t go to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and it’s a pity not to eat roast duck.” Therefore, it can reflect the deliciousness of roast duck from the side.
Because of Concubine Qin's insistence, King Li, who was usually busy with official business, was dragged here just to watch Gu Qianxue cook the only delicacy in the world.
Because the angry Buddha of King Li was by his side, the servants trembled and lost their usual joy and joy, and they secretly prayed in their hearts that Princess Qianxue should marry into the palace. I hope Princess Qianxue will impress the prince with her wisdom and beauty. It's best to change the prince's unpredictable and irritable temper.
Fortunately, Gu Qianxue didn't know what everyone was thinking. If she knew, she would be so angry that she would vomit blood—she wasn't sure of changing King Li, but she was sure that King Li would beat her to death! With her ability and frequency of angering King Li.
Not much gossip, Gu Qianxue began to concentrate on making delicious food.
First of all, there is the problem of the oven.
Gu Qianxue drew the appearance of the oven on the paper. Although it is not a professional oven like a roast duck restaurant, there is no problem in building a temporary one.
Once the drawings were drawn, the craftsmen immediately started to make them.
The next step is to prepare the materials.
Peking duck has a unique method, that is, it needs to be inflated! Inflate inward along the knife edge of the duck's neck, blow the air between the subcutaneous tissue and connective tissue, so that the air can evenly fill the duck's body. The advantage of this is to separate the skin from the meat, so as to achieve the effect of crispy skin, fragrant meat, and even coloring.
This can be inflated with an air cylinder or a rubber hose mouth, but for hygiene reasons, Gu Qianxue still found a tube and used the manual bellows in the kitchen to inflate.
Inside and outside the kitchen, there was no sound. Everyone looked at Gu Qianxue curiously and surprised, because it was the first time everyone saw that cooking duck needed to be inflated.
Not to mention the servants, even King Li temporarily forgot what was in his mind and concentrated on watching Gu Qianxue inflate the duck.
After a while, the processed duck was blown up like a balloon, the bulging, wrinkled skin became flattened.
The next step is to hang the duck on a hook, and scald the whole body of the duck with boiling water to make the gas more inflated, but the strength must be mastered, otherwise the duck will be scalded easily.
Afterwards, salt, wine and soy sauce were mixed together and brushed on the duck for as many as five times to marinate for a stick of incense.
During this time of burning incense, Gu Qianxue was not idle and started making duck sauce.
Since there was no sweet noodle sauce, Gu Qianxue diluted the soybean paste and put it into sweet and sour sauce to make sweet noodle sauce for later use.
Add oil to the frying pan, when the oil is hot, turn down the heat to low, then pour in the sweet noodle sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then add sugar and water, continue to fry until the sugar melts, and remove from the pan. Some sesame oil was sprinkled on the pot before cooking, and immediately, the whole kitchen smelled of sweet sauce, and many people couldn't help swallowing.
Princess Yong'an greedily sniffed and smelled the fragrance, "Girl Qianxue, I think your Peking duck must taste very delicious, let's not talk about the weird duck meat, just say that the sauce is delicious."
Gu Qianxue checked the marinated duck meat, but found that it was not tasty yet, and there was still time, so she returned to Princess Yong'an with a smile, "Your Highness is right, Beijing roast duck is the most delicious thing, and it is also me. It is my favorite food, and it is not only delicious, but also has many benefits for the body."
"Oh? What's the benefit?" Princess Yong'an became interested, and the servants also pricked up their ears in a hurry to listen.
Gu Qianxue patiently explained to everyone, "The fatty acid in duck meat has a low melting point and is very easy to digest. It contains much more B vitamins and vitamin E than other meats."
Princess Yong'an asked, "What is fatty acid? What are B vitamins and vitamin E? Girl Qianxue, why can't I understand what you are talking about?"
Don't say that Princess Yong'an can't understand, even everyone present can't understand, except for one person - King Li.
King Li had some understanding of the strange words in Gu Qianxue's mouth, not because of anything else, but because he had heard Gu Qianxue talk about it with Su Lingxiao when he hid behind the screen of the High Heaven Pavilion.
236, see what this king is doing